Trumpet students (L-R): Vicente Andres, Abraham Cupeiro, Leigh Anne Hunsaker, Emile Meuffels, Miguel Navarro, Antonio Sovano and Nicolas Isabelle

Biber: Emile Meuffels, Leigh Anne Hunsaker, trumpets; Enrique Gómez, Joan Cervera, violins; Carlos Orejas, harpsichord; Friedemann Immer, cello

From June 27 to July 8, the Curso Internacional de Música for historic interpretation was held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The teachers are among the foremost interpreters of baroque and classical music in Europe. The course was open to singers and instrumentalists with historic and modern instruments, but focused on the performance of baroque music.

Seven trumpet students attended the course with trumpet teacher Friedemann Immer, all playing baroque trumpets (although one of the students made his own baroque trumpet only a few days before from an old trumpet bell and some plumbing tubes). The days were packed with individual lessons, lectures by the teachers, trumpet ensemble rehearsals, student concerts and teacher concerts. Even the siesta was mostly worked through, filled with rehearsals for the orchestra and chamber music projects.

The trumpet ensemble under the direction of Friedemann Immer performed Ferdinand Donninger: Musikalische Vorstellung einer Seeschlacht, Claudio Monteverdi: Toccata from Orfeo, Benjamin Britten: Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury and Klaus-Hannes Osterloh: Rag Rog. With the baroque orchestra, the trumpet players performed the Third Suite by J.S. Bach and the Fasch Concerto for 9 trumpets, 9 oboes, 3 bassoons and 3 timpani.

Students of Friedemann Immer performed the following pieces in the daily student concerts: Biber: Sonata Number 7 (for 2 trumpets, 2 violins and continuo), Finger: Sonata No. 2 (trumpet, oboe and continuo), Purcell: Genius of England (trumpet, soprano and continuo) and Melani: Sonata à 5 (2 trumpets, 2 violins and continuo).

The course was sponsored by the La Caixa foundation.

Links:
Curso Internacional de Música - La interpretación histórica (in Spanish)
La Caixa Foundation (in Spanish)